Experts on youth culture should be used to prevent miscarriages of justice against young black men, lawyers have said, after a model student was wrongly convicted after being labelled a gang member.
Pressure on the criminal justice system to tackle racial bias is growing as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) rolls out an action plan to tackle “disproportionality”, after research it commissioned found people from minority ethnic backgrounds were “significantly more likely” to be charged for a comparable offence than white British people.
